The Character of Organizations: Using Personality Type in Organization Development

Gives change agents—organization development consultants, HR professionals, organizational psychologists, and top executives and mangers—an opportunity to further their understanding of why organizations act as they do and why they are so very hard to change. Includes detailed descriptions of the sixteen types of organizational character, the impact that an organization’s life cycle may have on character development, and the consequences that mergers and acquisitions may have by juxtaposing different organizational character types.